taken over by the monopolies or the first days of live television when studs had studs' place on local chicagod to the local degree about the webbs' well and by throwing comics and we go through each one of these cases and after the beginning phase and these areas or corporatized and formulas are set and then it is people who are grinding out the material expected of them and they don't have room for creativity. i discovered probably only when i began working on comex again after the lapse most people growing up thought the comics were written, john and everything else by the same artist who often wasn't acknowledged and we learned later in life is like a assembly line. that is the way that d.c. and comics are produced. you might write or do something else but it's just a job to come in and spend your hours and so on and so forth. we are in that phase now without work comics. that is what is exciting about it. it is probably because there is such little money and nobody wants to take it over and there is no indication that anybody wants to take over but there is enormous amount of excitement a

i mean, howard was more involved in local activities in chicago by that point. >> and shortly, the workd in chicago, coming to chicago, most of it had to do with the medical center even though he dabbled a little bit in politics. he went back to his first love and that was healing the sick. and so his center was a beautiful center. he would help people like angela davis and some of the others on the walls so people came in they felt better because they would see people that they read about. and then he proceeded to help them. so most of his work in chicago had to do with the south side and medicine and one last thing in that his house is still here. still in the city. in his basement, we've seen it, it covers about a block. it's a beautiful home on the south side. thank you. [inaudible] >> i have to say in 45 short minutes, it is impossible to do justice to the rich subjects in these very elegant and impressive biographies. all i can do at the end of our time now is to recommend that you locate those books and read them. i want to express my thanks to professors margaret washington, dav

but right when i started local city university of chicago, -- king came to chicago, and i'm, i'm not going to miss this. and so i volunteered with his lawyer team and i found myself on the west side trying to desegregate the housing and bring the housing that was there up to code. so i wore a little arm band that said lawyer, i was a second-year law student by then. ignorant of the world. so it was a big teaching, eye-opening experience for me. >> host: where did you go to law school and have you practiced. >> guest: i went to the university of chicago law school. i graduated in 1967. there were only six person in the law school in my day, not a single person of color. and every single guy in my class who include, you may be interested know, john ashcroft. >> host: did you know him?

local jobs. work began last month chicago o'hare on $12 million project runway tend to age and taxiway adjacent to the runway trading 50 direct jobs. there also a number of project status to come on-line over the course of next four weeks. the kansas city international

local jobs. once again last month at chicago o'hare 12 .3 million dollar project treated 50 direct jobs with the runway widening. also others are scheduled to come on line over the next four weeks. kansas city international will start work on $4 million runway rehabilitation projects creating 50 direct jobs. at oakland airport 9. $7,000,000.03 projects will include ramps and overnight parking spaces for aircraft. san jose 5.$2 million project is part of a larger effort to exploit their regional safety issues have now been addressed to potentially unsafe movement that has moved the project forward one full-year creating 83 jobs. the yosemite international will create jobs next month when work begins on the 2. $2 million project to reconstruct taxiways. the recovery act also exempted present activity funds with the at minimum tax airports rely on bonds to finance the infrastructure and safety projects part of the bond market dried up and mrs. changing the aspect the international airport at miami-dade has sold that for the new terminal project the washington airports authority sold bonds for a six

a big huge white of years back about the fighting of the wal-mart stores, to stores in chicago and was a big local protest on the part of people we thought that this was going to drive out local businesses, it was going to lower wages and depress wages in the city and on the other side there were people saying these are stores coming into port communities, bringing bargain prices that hard-pressed families needed. what do you do without? you have written a book that gives a long story about wal-mart, how does it affect you personally? where do you stand? >> guest: i was actually in chicago for that fight and it was fascinating because i guess it was that a city council meeting with a representative from the area of chicago where the stores have been sound given exemptions allowed to come in was facing off now against critics of wal-mart who have the data. wal-mart doesn't create jobs, it cannibalizes jobs just like any retailer does. you just shot summer else, it is not a new job, in fact, sometimes of the net effect is a loss. but what she said it is really important and people who support labor,

we have a similar problem in chicago in cook county, illinois. at the local public hospital, wait times for specialty services can range from six months to one or two years, under the current system. so we know that when it comes to delays, unfortunately, they are occurring in the current system that we have. we also know that for a lot of people this current system has become just unaffordable and intolerable. when i think back of one of my friends in springfield, doug mayol, he tells the story. he ounce a -- owns a small business in springfield, a shop that sells cards and gifts. his only worker has medicare coverage, but doug has to buy private health insurance. unfortunately, you see, doug has a problem. he was diagnosed many years ago -- 30 years ago, in fact -- with congenital heart valve defect. he has no symptoms. without regular health care, he runs the risk of developing serious problems. in the year 2001, doug, in springfield, illinois, paid $200 a month for health insurance. 2001. by 2005, even though he had not turned in any claims, his cost of h

chicago is one half hours. >> with the birth of the cottonelle army in 1775, local militias were organized under the leadership of george washington. that began in eight years engagement that would be known as the american revolutionary war. despite the outcome it was not by all historical accounts a model of tactical brilliance, in superior court nation. in fact, as you will subvert it was quite the contrary. if not for significant heroic actions of a coming inept leadership decisions and a fair amount of good old fashioned luck, the result of the war and the future of our nation could have been very different. our program has come to you from the pritzker military library in downtown chicago. about halfway through we will be taking questions from our audience and from those of you joining us on the internet. special thanks to our presenting sponsor, along with our individual and program sponsored and associate members for helping to make this presentation possible. for over 40 years john ferling has dedicated his career to early american history. he is the author of nine books and numerous articles on the am

the mayor, state, local officials to deal with this serious problem in the hometown of president obama. >> the problem you have detailed is unacceptable. i met with the mayor of chicago last week and we discussed that problem and other crime issues in chicago. what i told him then and what i will tell you now is that we are committed to working with him as partners to come up with ways in which we can deal with that issue. one is too great a number, but the numbers coming out of chicago are simply unacceptable and we have to take strong measures to come up with ways to deal with it. >> there are many aspects -- gang activity is one of them. the proliferation of guns to gun -- to gangs by unethical gun dealers. there is a federal aspect to this and i appreciate your being willing to cooperate in dealing with it. there were two investigations you inherited from the bush administration related to activity that preceded your rival. one with a bush administration investigation of the destruction of cia interrogation videotapes. the second involved an investigation of several attorneys in the justice department who authorized the use of abusive techniques like water boardi

local transit systems. this actually developed out of a homeland security working group dialogue that i had in my congressional district. i represent the west and northwest suburbs of chicago, and a wide range of commuters. we have bus lines and rail lines in the chicago area and there's a certain level of vulnerability. so last march i invited some of the leadership of the public transit systems and some of the security agencies to really offer ideas. and this is one of the ideas that they had. they said, look, we have needs at the local level and there are resources at the federal government, but sometimes those two things aren't really in sync. and so what this is it says simply that the assistant secretary of homeland security will hold hearings if this amendment was passed and those hearings are really about the subject of whether current allowable uses of grant funds are sufficient to meet the daily needs of the -- the daily security needs and the transit security needs of these local agencies. then after that happens, after that conversation happens in these hearings to come back to congress and to report. and i think that this is one of these areas where there's a

chicago, illinois, have received tax incentives for $5.3 billion. these incentives encourage businesses to open or expand and to hire local residents. they include employment credits, low-interest loans, reduced taxation on capital gains, and other incentives. unfortunately, some of the programs have not operated as intended. a few major hurdles have prevented full utilization of the tax benefits available. these incentives desperately need to be refined and extended. that is exactly what this legislation would do, and that is why it is so important for this senate to act without delay. empowerment zones, like the one in east st. louis, illinois, focus on grass, roots, sustainable progress. it creates a bond between businesses, imleerks and surrounding communities. despite selfing only one-fourth of the anticipated federal funding, they have found aspiring entrepreneurs to develop businesses using a creative away of tax incentives and loans. this legislation is an important step toward revising the blight faced by our inner cities without gentrifying these areas or shutting out the community members who need our help the most. senat